Argo Page #2

GALLEGOS:

Why?

AL GOLACINSKI:

To reason with them. *

Marines open the Chancery door, with a look --

23 INT. CHANCERY OFFICE - MORNING 23

FRED KUPKE, 34, communications officer, is shouting at

staffers who pile up documents for the shredders --

KUPKE:

Just everything. Don.’t sort it --

ANN SWIFT:

(on the phone)

-- NONE, there are no police --

ZERO --

24 EXT. CHANCERY - MORNING 24

Al Golacinski steps out onto the steps and immediately

there is shouting, and a protestor puts a GUN to his head

-- blindfolds him -- PUSHING AL.’S head to the ground...

25 INT. CONSULATE OFFICE - MORNING 25 *

CORA LIJEK:

-- Second floor -- anyone who can

hear this -- we need help --

As we MOVE DOWN the line of desks, JOE STAFFORD is also

on a radio repeating the same in FARSI --

Others PACK things.

26 INT. THE HALLWAY - INTO THE VAULT - MORNING 26

MARINES and STAFFERS -- including TOM AHERN -- RUN down

the hall, pushing a cart of items to secure. They reach

the security locker -- code the door -- and enter the

locker, heading to the INCINERATOR to begin destroying

classified material --

27 EXT. CHANCERY - MORNING 27 *

Golacinski HELD UP TO THE DOOR -- GUN TO HIS HEAD. He

starts to panic.

ARGO - Final 6.

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AL GOLACINSKI:

Let me in! Jesus Christ! Open

the f***ing door!

The Marines OPEN THE CHANCERY DOOR -- PROTESTERS POUR IN.

27A INT. CHANCERY OFFICE - MORNING 27A

ANN SWIFT:

-- Washington on flash -- Get Ops

-- get a line --

We hear --

The POUNDING of footsteps on the roof. They look up.

28 EXT. CONSULATE ROOF - MORNING 28

Protestors RUNNING on the roof of the consulate building.

Several stop to try and RIP off a vent cover using CLUBS

and PIPES.

29 EXT. EMBASSY GROUNDS - MORNING 29

THOUSANDS are now on the grounds of the embassy and they

continue to swarm through the gates.

The student with the SUPER 8 continues to film it all.

Also filming, a NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER with a 16 mm camera.

Smoking cannisters of TEAR GAS, people hurling them.

A protestor lights a paper on fire to ward off the sting

of the gas --

30 INT. CHANCERY OFFICE - MORNING 30

STAFFERS using pieces of machines to destroy other

machines -- any embassy equipment that might function --

Then... screams. The lights have gone out. The power

has been cut.

31 IN THE VAULT - MORNING 31

AHERN destroys the cryptography keys -- box-sized hard

drives -- while BILL DAUGHERTY, 33, tosses stacks of

papers into an electrical furnace.

ARGO - Final 7.

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